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A. A. LATEULERE.

MUSIC BOX No. 350,256. Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

N PETERS. Phnlc-hlhcgrapher, Washington,

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

ALBERT ANTOINE LATEULIERE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF ANDGEORGE FREDERICK BEUTNER, OF SAME PLACE.

MUSlC-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,256, dated October5, 1886.

Application filed August 25, 1886. Serial No. 211,785. (No model.)Patented in England June 21, 1886. No. 8,196.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT ANTOINE LA- TEULERE, inechanician, a citizenof the Re public of France, and residing at 75 Little Britain, in thecity of London, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Musical Boxes and like Musical Instruments, (for whichGeorge Frederick Beutner and I have applied for a patent in GreatBritain on the 21st day of June, 1886, No. 8, 196, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide convenient, economical, andefficient means for enabling the barrels of musical boxes and the 1 liketo be removable and replaceable and interchanged, as desired.

According to this invention each barrel is made with a gap extendingfrom its axis (through which the shaft or axle passes) out at the sideor periphery thereof, so that it can be removed from the shaft or axleand replaced thereon sidewise. Fastenings are provided for securing thebarrels to the shaft or axle, which fastenings may be ofany suitable or2 convenient descriptionsuch as spring-catches or screws, or thelike-which may engage against a flattened part of the shaft or axle ateach end in such wise as to allow, where desired, of the endway shiftingof the barrel to 0 alter the tune. The shaft or axle may be providedwith a filling-piece to cover or close the side opening in the barrelwhen it is on the shaft or axle. Anynuinber of these barrels may beprovided for each musical box, and

barrels with new tunes can be readily placed on the shaft or axle whenthe old barrel is removed.

In order that my said invention may be fully understood, I shall nowproceed more 4,0 particularly to describe the same, and for that purposeshall refer to the several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings, thesame 1etters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all thefigures.

5 Figure 1 represents in plan, and Fig. 2 in transverse section, so muchof a musical box as is necessary to illustrate the invention. In Fig. 1the barrel is shown partlyin section to more clearly show itsconstruction. Fig. 2"

Shows the barrel in the act of being slid into its place on the shaft.Fig. 3 shows the barrel separately, and Fig. 4 shows the shaft or axleseparately.

A is the barrel, provided with points or other usual or suitable meansfor actuating the sounding devices of the instrument. In the barrel is agap, (1, extending from the central hole through which the shaft or axisB passes out at the periphery or side of the barrel. Upon the shaft oraxis B is fixed or formed a guide or fillingpiece, I), which, when thebarrel is pushed sidewise onto the shaft or axle, fills up so much ofthe gap a as is not occupied by the shaft or axle B. The meansillustrated for fixing the barrel to the shaft consists of screw-nuts con each end of the barrel A, through which work screws d, which, afterthe barrel is put in place, are screwed inward and bear against theflattened parts of the shaft or axle at If, and thus confine the barrelin place, but allow of its moving lengthwise to alter the tune in caseswhere each barrel is made to play several tunes. Where this is not thecase. of course this lengthwise movement need not be provided for. beevident that the fastenings may be of any convenient description, such,for example, as spring-catches, which will (when the barrel is put inplace on the shaft or axle) spring into notches or slots in the barrel.\Vhen the fastso enings are withdrawn, the barrel can be removedsidewise from the shaft and another barrel be placed sidewise thereonwithout disturbing the ordinary parts and mechanism of the instrument.The arrangement of the 85 pins or the like will most conveniently besuch that the air or tune commences at one edge of the gap and finishesat the other edge of the ap. g The parts of the instrument which I havec not described are or may be of the ordinary or any suitableconstructions such as are well known to makers of these instruments.

I claim 1. In a musical box or like musical instru- 5 ment, a barrelprovided with a longitudinal gap in its side to facilitate its removalfrom and replacement on its shaft or axle, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the barrel A of a zoo It will musical box or likemusical instrument, havto this specification in the presence'of twosubto ing agap, a, in its side, with a shaft or axle scribing witnesses.

having a guide or filling piece, 1), adapted to ALBERT ANTOINE LATEULEREsaid gap, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the barrel A, having a gap, a, with a shaft oraxle and means for fastening the barrel to the shaft or axle,substantially as specified.

' In testimony whereof I have signed my name Witnesses:

CHAS. JAS. J owns,

47 Lincolns Inn Fields, London. WM. JOHN WEEKS,

9 Birchin Lane, London.

